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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rash that often looks like a bull's-eye -- white in the center and red on the outside. It erupts up to a month after the tick bite, and is sometimes accompanied by fever, stiffness and extreme lethargy. At this stage, the infection is easily cured with common antibiotics, like tetracycline. Left untreated, however, more serious symptoms may develop as the spirochete makes its way into the brain (18% of cases), the joints (57%) or the heart (10%). Correctly diagnosed, even these complications can usually be reversed with large doses of antibiotics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Big Trouble with Tiny Ticks | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

...unclear whether Harvard's policy of protecting certain undergraduate files is common practice. However, the chief archivist at Yale, said that they do not have such a policy...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: College Secures VIPs' Records | 9/26/1987 | See Source »

...typical college happy hour in the common room of Davenport, one of Yale's residential colleges. Davenport is the schizophrenic college, with fake Gothic architecture on the street side and fake Georgian architecture on the courtyard side. A bell tower rises from the spires...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Integrating the Gay and Straight | 9/23/1987 | See Source »

Chinn and Franklin, who live off-campus with two other women, one of whom is straight, say that gay jokes are not common in public at Yale, but within students' own groups of friends degrading homosexuals is more acceptable...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Integrating the Gay and Straight | 9/23/1987 | See Source »

...they say harassment is common. "They stare. They threaten. They comment," Franklin says...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Integrating the Gay and Straight | 9/23/1987 | See Source »

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